Un/gleich/zeitig: In Close Contact With – The Benefits of a Clever Program for Visiting Industry Professionals
Un/gleich/zeitig: In Close Contact With – The Benefits of a Clever Program for Visiting Industry Professionals
Alongside the artistic events for a broad audience, many event locations and festivals also organize special formats for visiting industry professionals. Networking events, rounds of discussion or meet & greets – these all support discussion with each other as well as with the participating artists. Together with the Office National de Diffusion Artistique, ONDA (Paris, France), the NRW KULTURsekretariat (North Rhine-Westphalia) and the network Festivalfriends (all throughout Germany), we will discuss how continuous networking can sustainably support the distribution and thus the visibility of the performing arts.
ONDA supports the distribution of contemporary French and international performing arts in France through information, professional knowledge, networking as well as through financial support.
The international visitors program of the NRW KULTURsekretariat strengthens the international visibility of the cultural community of North Rhine-Westphalia. It networks people working in the fields of cultural journalism, cultural education, cultural policy as well as the leaders of institutions, festival organizers, curators and other amplifiers from around the world with the community in NRW.
Festivalfriends supports the exchange and synergies between twelve different festivals of the independent performing arts community in Germany.
Anne-Cécile Sibué, Eva Lenhardt and Nora Schneider will provide brief insights into their work with short presentations and then discuss with the audience: What should a program for visiting industry professionals look like in order to effectively strengthen the visibility of the independent arts? In addition, the Berlin Performing Arts Program will present its new open call for the support and invitation of curators, programmers & amplifiers.
In English spoken language.
With Anne-Cécile Sibué (Office National de Diffusion Artistique ONDA), Eva Lenhardt (NRW KULTURsekretariat), Nora Schneider (Festivalfriends) and Catherine Launey and Belén Marinato (Berlin Performing Arts Program)
Moderation: Godlive Lawani (founder and director of Stane Performing Arts Management)
Godlive Lawani is the founder and director of Stane Performing Arts Management - she is an organizer of cultural events, distributor, manager, producer, tour manager and freelance dancer and performer based in Berlin.